Most Americans probably enjoyed the extra hour of sleep they got this weekend when daylight saving time ended, but was it the product of an antiquated, inconvenient method of timekeeping?
The Atlantic‘s Allison Schrager says yes, but she doesn’t stop there: she advocates not only doing away with daylight saving time but reduce the contiguous United States’ four time zones to two, one for the West and one for the East.
“Why stick with a system designed for commerce in 1883?” she asks. Which is actually a pretty good question.
